> Also, I don't
> like the behavior where "man" will return the screen to what it was before
> running.. making it harder to do cut-n-paste or scroll up to re-read a
> section. That is a major PITA too.

I think that's more a function of the man pager, in which case 'less' likes
to return the screen, whereas 'more' doesn't.  You can set your man pager by
exporting the PAGER environment variable.  I'm not sure if 'less' has
options to make it behave more similarly; it probably does as well.

William Yang


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